Description: Paying the Land, Hardcover by Sacco, Joe, ISBN 1627799036, ISBN-13 9781627799034, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "The Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To the Dene, the land owns them, not the other way around, and it is central to their livelihood and very way of being. But the subarctic Canadian Northwest Territories are home to valuable resources, including oil, gas, and diamonds. With mining came jobs and investment, but also road-building, pipelines, and toxic waste, which scarred the landscape, and alcohol, drugs, and debt, which deformed a way of life. In Paying the Land, Joe Sacco travels the frozen North to reveal a people in conflict over the costs and benefits of development. The mining boom is only the latest assault on indigenous culture: Sacco recounts the shattering impact of a residential school system that aimed to "remove the Indian from the child"; the destructive process that drove the Dene from the bush into settlements and turned them into wage laborers; the government land claims stacked against the Dene Nation; and their uphill efforts to revive a wounded culture. Against a vast and gorgeous landscape that dwarfs all human scale, Paying the Land lends an ear to trappers and chiefs, activists and priests, to tell a sweeping story about money, dependency, loss, and culture-recounted in stunning visual detail by one of the greatest cartoonists alive"--
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Book Title: Paying the Land
Author: Sacco, Joe
Artist/Writer: Joe Sacco
Character: Gabrielle Mackenzie Scott, Martin Luther King, Sir John A. Macdonald, John, Margaret Jumbo, Gordon Yakeleya, Valerie Conrad, Lawrence Nayally, Rene Fumoleau, Cecile Raymond, VICTOR Jumbo, Georges Erasmus, Frederick Andrew, Yamozha, Melaw Nakehk'o, Deborah Simmons, Duncan Campbell, Ruby Jumbo, Robert Alexie, Paul Andrew, Stephen Butt, Deneze Nakehk'o, Carol, Father Jean Pochat, Eugene Boulanger, Dennis Banks, Patrick Scott, Minnie Letcher, Dudley Johnson, Shauna, Thomas Berger, Malcolm X, Darrell Beaulieu, Laura Boileau, Russell Means, Jessica, Jim Antoine, Edward Jumbo, Douglas Yallee, Harry Deneron, William Greenland, Frank T'seleie, David Etchinelle, Kyla Kakfwi Scott, Stephen Kakfwi, Jonas Antoine, William Morrow, Marie Wilson, Willard HAGEN, Joe Punch, Brenda Jumbo, Amos Scott, Theresa Etchinelle, Richard Nerysoo, Peter Redvers, Dolphus Jumbo
Series Title: Paying the Land
Era: Modern Age (1992-Now)
Language: English
Cover Artist: Joe Sacco
Publisher: Henry Holt AND Co.
Publication Year: 2020
Genre: Non-Fiction
